[right-wing agnostic]

I think Michael Barone does a decent job at explaining why more states haven't set up their own health-care exchanges. But he forgot one big reason: the states don't have the money to sustain the exchanges once the federal moneys dry up in a few short years. The left's definition of "judicial activism" i.e., if a federal court strikes down an act of Congress is complete and utter bull $hit. Real judicial activism is when the judges and justices of the federal courts--particularly the U.S. Supreme Court-- insert their own personal views on society and "read into" the U.S. Constitution rights and privileges that are nowhere to be found in the U.S. Constitution. Roe v. Wade, Plyler v. Doe, Lawrence v. Texas, Kelo v. New London, Hollingsworth v. Perry, and United States v. Windsor are just a few examples of the U.S. Supreme Court's judicial activism. However, you would be hard pressed to find a liberal who didn't enthusiastically endorse every one of these U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Justice Antonin Scalia is correct when he says that constitutional originalism is no where near as results-oriented approach is as living constitutionalism is. It absolutely sickens me that the left believes the U.S. Constitution is a "living-and- breathing" document but that they contend that unborn babies are not living and breathing creatures worthy of any legal protections. Liberals and leftists are diabolical./rwa

[exnavy]

Big government has never worked well, ever. The ultimate big government is communism, it fails every time it is tried.

[Focault's Pendulum]

Big government wasn’t as big in the Industrial Age.

[2001convSVT]

Diabolical is right, I still haven't gotten over the KELO decision.

[stars & stripes forever]

Free Enterprise worked better in the Industrial Age.

[TurboZamboni]

159 = number of security gaps found at information security programs at 10 Medicare contractors in Fiscal Year 2012, according to an HHS Inspector General Report issued on July 30, 2014.

HHS Awards States $106 Million in Grants for Thinly Veiled Data Collection Initiative
http://www.cchfreedom.org/cchf.php/938#.U-Iwxyg71yE